Russia's strongman president has many Americans convinced of his manipulative genius. He's really just a gambler who won big.

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Peter Baker“We did an amazing job in the first decade of Putin’s rule of creating the illusion that Putin controls everything in Russia,” says former Kremlin adviser. Smart, insightful look at Putin’s Russia and our overestimation of it by the fabulous @juliaioffe
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Jeffrey A. Engel’s “When the World Seemed New” recounts the last spasm of Republican internationalism.

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Peter Baker"When the World Seemed New," by @jeffreyaengel, is an "excellent history" of Bush 41 foreign policy and a "rebuke to the retrograde nationalism espoused by Donald J. Trump," writes @JacobHeilbrunn
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With Twitter as his Excalibur, the president takes on his doubters, powered by long spells of cable news and a dozen Diet Cokes. But if Mr. Trump has yet to bend the presidency to his will, he is at least wrestling it to a draw.